Everything has been approved and is now in production for Blood and Jungle. The counters will take the longest at this point, but as soon as they are done, they will be shipped directly to the printers, who will then collate and package each set. I expect this product to be about an inch in thickness – a 60-page magazine, 24 scenarios cards, 3 SK-style maps, 20 rules pages, and 4 counter sheets will make quite a hefty package.

I can’t wait to get these in my hands in the next two weeks and get them shipped out.

Sam

As of this morning, everything for Blood & Jungle has been sent to the printers. It took months of hard work by all of us, but the end result will surely be worth waiting for.

For the main printer, I transferred 2.25 GB of compressed digital goodness, and 11 MB to the counter printers.

With the hard part of this project behind us, we are looking ahead to next year and planning our next two releases. Not enough decisions finalized at this point to announce anything, but we will be in full production again in January.

Bounding Fire Productions is proud to announce that BFP3: Blood and Jungle is now available for pre-orders.  Head to our website, www.boundingfire.com

BFP3: Blood and Jungle is our first Battlepack based in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The unprecedented size of this product makes it unique in our industry, and follows in our tradition of high quality, exciting scenarios.

General content includes:

47 scenarios. They range from early 1930s Japanese vs. Chinese Action to 1947 KNIL (Dutch) vs. Indonesians. The scenarios range from tourny to monster, all infantry to combined arms, etc. A good chunk of the action does not necessarily have PTO Terrain in effect. Basically there is something in here for everyone scenario wise.

A large magazine with a variety of articles all with a PTO theme.

4 countersheets. Japanese Partially Armed Paratroopers, 5/8″ counters for a variety of nationalities either rare/not in the system/captured: Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese, KNIL, US, Aussie…. and maybe some surprises.

Essentially 3 mapboards. One is our ‘double wide’ concept. The boards fit together for a large urban battlefield, and are geomorphic on all of the other sides.

…..and more.

We will be providing some pics, more information, etc.

Without a doubt this is a monster product, which I like to call ‘the OtO of the PTO’. YMMV on this but I am fully confident if you like PTO you will love this product. If you are new and not necessarily interested in PTO, you will still really like this product.

After receiving an email from Dave Ramirez, I realized that the VASL boards and overlays that Tom Repetti worked so hard to produce for us were not available for download on our site.

I have all of the Bounding Fire boards (A-F) and overlays now listed, and the overlay instructions are updated as well.

If you have any issues, drop me an email at Support.

Thanks,

Sam Tyson

One is on the back of BFP-22 and the other on the back of BFP-25…

It is supposed to be there. When I was at the printer going over the proofs, there was a blank page on the back of the last scenario, since there is one scenario big enough for two pages.

Instead of leaving it blank, I picked the next largest scenario and copied it to the back of BFP-25, so both sides can have a copy during the play of BFP-21.

I couldn’t just pull a new scenario out of mid-air and publish it, so I thought an extra copy of a scenario would be better than a blank page.

It is unprecedented behaviour, but thanks for the oppurtunity to explain.

Tom Repetti has been very generous and has VASLized the maps and overlays for VASL.

Head over to the download page to get the new stuff.

I am starting to see frequent posts on GameSquad and other spots across the web. I will try to link to them here when I see them.

Walter McMillian – Fire Teams

Matt Shostak – Clash at Ponyri

Nick Drinkwater – Debacle at Sung Kiang

Zeb Doyle – Into the Rubble Overview

Charles Sloki – Rebounded Spirit

If anybody sees any other reports out there, let me know.

I just got back from a week on the road, and I have managed to get every order shipped out. According to the post office, if you have order on or before today, Feb 9th 2008, you should have ITR in your hands by next Saturday, unless Customs holds things up for the APO and overseas orders.

It has been a lot of fun trying to keep up with all of the orders, and I can only recall two slips. I hand-delivered one copy at Winter Offensive, then came back to Charlotte and mailed another copy out on that order. The other slip was only mailing ITR, and I missed adding a copy of LFT11 to the package. Considering all of the orders, that is still over 99% accurate shipping.

Please email us if you don’t have your ITR soon!

Nothing like a bad cell-phone photo to inspire the masses. The printer just dropped off the first official BFP A & BFP B boards.

Let this statement inspire you though … They look awesome. The card stock is perfect, the size is perfect, the cut along the edges is right through the center dot on all 4 sides, the colors jump, etc.

The fold was backwards, but they will fold the rest the other way.

I just signed off on the final proofs of BFP A and BFP B. The colors, resolution, and artwork were all absolutely fantastic. I had to give both proofs back to the printer, but now I can’t wait to see them again.

I recently complained about printers in general, and ICI Printing was one of them. As the other 3 print companies continued to live up to their previous standards, ICI Printing won the job with excellent customer service and has done everything I asked and more. They pick up and deliver disks and proofs at my office, and the quality of printing is as good as I have ever seen, if not better.

With the fast turn-around promised by ICI, I think ITR will be shipping out next week. With their recent performance, I even have the confidence to make that statement public.